IMHO... He is simply expressing that he tries to avoid unnecessary
consumption as a personal effort to conserve the environment. Lifting
his list out of context changes how it will most likely be received.
His "solar energy, such as that of the body" seems to refer to easily
renewed energy sources - food (he's from 5 generations of farmers and
has written for "Organic Gardening" etc).
http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/berrynot.html
Hmm ... the Wallace Stegner connection is interesting.
-jeff
On 9/29/06, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I assumed you provided accurate information about what he said. What
> I read did not make me want to explore him further.
>
> I can sort of distinguish between different kinds of energy because
> of a fair amount of science in my education. To muddle it all
> together in a New Agey way as solar strikes me as really sloppy
> thinking. It is a reduction to absurdity argument. But I could be
> wrong.
>
- snip
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, CA
> USA
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Rob Harrison wrote:
>
> > On 9/29/06 12:13 PM, "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> You really wonder whether someone who is unclear on where
> >> solar energy comes from has anything meaningful at all to say.
> >
> > With all due respect Winsor, you ought to read the whole essay.
> > Especially
> > Wendell Berry's response to the letters to the editor which
> > followed the
> > first publication of the essay in Harper's, since your and Khem's
> > reactions
> > are not dissimilar to those letters. There is not a writer in the
> > United
> > States who has more meaningful things to say than Wendell Berry.
> > IMHO of
> > course.
> >
> > It only takes a little imagination to realize he's talking about
> > tools that
> > operate without the benefit of electricity or fossil fuels, with
> > muscle
> > power, which others have already noted is a form of energy that
> > ultimately
> > comes from the sun.
> >
> > Rob in Seattle
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